Chapter 1

The town of Mystic Rock Harbor in British Columbia awoke to a brilliant dawn. The clouds were painted purple and pink and the ocean released a salt-scented spray.

In the Swagger house, Angel and her husband, Mok were still asleep in their beds. They did not witness the sun rise, as they usually never do. Angel was a detective forensic employed by the town's police station. Usually, she led cases that involved robbery and vandalism, but there was not a single case of homicide.

The town of Mystic Rock Harbor, unlike its neighbor to the south, Vancouver, it never had a case of murder for over 60 years.

There were times that Angel felt that it was for the best to not cause a panic in the town. However, she was bored of doing the same, solving a robbery or a vandal case.

"Mommy! Mommy!" a little voice exclaimed. Angel's daughter, Emmy climbed up onto her mother and began to rough bounce on her.

"Emmy, that hurts, what is it?" Angel asked and the girl stopped bouncing.

"Phone call, mommy!" Emmy said, happily.

Angel groaned, she knew that her boss was on the phone, perhaps to tell her that there is another case of a robbery waiting to be solved.

"C'mon mommy!" Emmy cried, pulling on her mother's arm.

"Now, now Emmy, don't boss your mother around," Mok said to his daughter, "She has a very tough job."

"Not as tough as I wanted it to be," Angel replied and got up from the bed.

The blonde woman went up to M.A.I., the computer that served as a tele-communicator.

"Yes?" Angel asked.

"Detective Lyons?" Captain Davey Biggins asked, "You better get down to Tranquility Beach right now."

"Tranquility Beach? What's going on?" Angel asked.

"You know that this town has a record of not having a homicide in 60 years?" Biggins said, "Well, it looks like we have to start re-counting."

Angel knew what that meant; there was a body at the beach, a possible homicide.

"I'll be there in between 10 to 15 minutes," Angel said and turned off the phone.

She changed out of her night clothes and into her black pants, black shirt, and red jacket. She gathered her forensics kit and looped her gun belt around her belly.

"Angel?" Mok asked. "Why are you so excited?"

"There's a body at Tranquility Beach, it could be a homicide," Angel replied and she got into her police cruiser.

"Real quick, Minnie and Nicolai will be coming around noon today and Emmy wants to go to the beach," Mok said to his wife.

"I'll be back before then, don't go without me," Angel replied and she headed out towards the crime scene.